Summary

This study is comprised of two datasets of tax records from
Chester County, Pennsylvania. The data is the complete record of taxes
and tax assessments taken between 1693 and 1799. Information from the
records includes first and last name of the taxpayer, year of tax list,
the taxpayer's township, the market value of the property taxed, the
amount of the taxes, the taxpayer's tenure, and number of servants
and/or slaves owned.

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

Time Period(s)

1693 -- 1799

Date of Collection

1992 -- 1994

Data Collection Notes

(1) The specific years covered in the data are: 1693,
1718, 1728, 1730, 1740, 1750, 1765, 1775, 1785, and 1799. (2) The
variable FORMAT_$ in Part 1 was renamed to make it valid in SAS. (3)
The value label "Undefined" was assigned to undefined values in the
TOWNSHIP and TENURE variables in Part 1, per the Principal
Investigator's instructions.